My grandson is applying for college and told me the minimum GPA to get into UCLA now is over 4.0 or better than straight A’s. Of course, that doesn’t apply to basketball players. Hopefully, this will be a life changing event for all three kids and the rest of the team too. And thanks to Trump for helping.

Oh, you need high grades as an athlete, Tom, but you’re right, obviously it’s not as high for a Scholarship athlete as a private citizen.

I read what Josh Rosen had to say this year, he was right. It’s harder for athletes at UCLA or Notre Dame or Stanford than Alabama or Auburn because of the student expectations with the high level of education,

No dissing those universities but Dame and UCLA demand student athletes keep a high GPA.

Sports are always a good way to get into college. My grandson is captain of his high school cross country team. He’s hoping that and his record will help him get into one of the smaller UC campuses, hopefully Santa Barbara or Santa Cruz. What’s crazy to me is the grading that has turned a 4.0 into almost just a B average. All the advanced courses where kids can earn 5.0 distort everything. Lot tougher today than when I went to Berkeley, Riverside, and UCLA. Probably couldn’t get in today.

Those dudes still face disciplinary action from the school and UCLA has been hard on this kinda stuff in the past. Gelo ain’t on the same level as Lonzo & Melo…they’d probably expell em if it didn’t mean Lavar might pull Melo.

as i understand it, they were never caught with the merchandise.
it’s probable that they DID mess around and that they DID upset the clerk.
it’s possible that the CLERK is the one who stole the glasses.

it seems that their biggest mistake was not realizing that they weren’t in the USA.

where is that video?
it’s a rumor from the Chinese authorities, but afaik, the actual video is not released(i can certainly be wrong).

the only video i have seen is just film of the shop and the shelf with the sunglasses. i haven’t seen any video showing the boys taking glasses and then leaving.

show me the video and i might change my mind.

it makes ZERO sense for those guys to steal something that they could certainly purchase, but i don’t doubt college pranks were afoot. any thing is possible, though. i’d believe the clerk stole the glasses after dealing with the little turds, that is a much more real-world result. since the charges were dropped, i would suspect that the evidence was not as damning as suggested. this IS China we’re talking about, not the USA or Sweden or something. the Chinese have a history of dastardly deeds done by those in charge, deeds that make slavery in the USA child’s play. selling the body parts of dissidents, harvesting collagen from those that don’t believe in the government is just a small part of it. why do you think that all the manufacturing has moved there, away from places with actual rules against mistreating humans. Chinese “authorities” have very little credibility.

they very well may have stolen the sunglasses, i’m just not ready to hang them without more info.

i’m guessing you don’t know what really goes on in China!
of course, it’s all second hand info, but so are the stories of slavery.

YES! the Chinese government does things that are so atrocious, they are worse than slavery. does your wife use collagen beauty treatments? because that collagen is harvested streetside by vans setup for harvesting human body parts. they skin people accused of being subversive and scrape the fat right into buckets. remember Falan Gong? those people are clean-living ascetics. their organs are sold to rich westerners who need transplants. i already gave a Guardian London article on collagen, here’s one from Reuters about how China is “mending it’s ways” on organ transplants:http://www.reuters.com/article/us-vatican-transplants-china/china-mending-its-ways-on-unethical-organ-transplants-official-says-idUSKBN15M2AN

google “transplant tourism”.

anyway, it is what it is. i suspect that those players didn’t steal anything, but that they were still way out of line and they need to learn that this world isn’t all jokes and fun.